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MAMMALIA. 
They are exposed to a host of maladies ; and those that reach the 
market have a very inferior flavour to Warren Rabbits. Their 
flesh being insipid and unwholesome, it is lightly esteemed by the 
gens de gout . 
At the commencement of the seventeenth century, Olivier de 
Tig. 218. — Tame Eabbits. 
Serres published directions for rearing Rabbits. But what he 
had more particularly in view was the reproduction of the semi- 
savage, semi-domesticated animal, enclosed in a warren several 
acres in extent. Of course such conveniences are not in the 
power of all ; so the most general mode is depriving the Rabbit 
